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1. Production of anti-tumor-promoting iridoid glucosides in Genipa americana and its cell cultures.
Ueda S, Iwahashi Y, Tokuda H.
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.
J Nat Prod. 1991 Nov-Dec;54(6):1677-80
The Genipa americana plant contains geniposide [3] and geniposidic acid [2] in the fruits and geniposidic acid [2] in the leaves. On callus induction, the plant produces tarennoside [1], geniposidic acid [2], and gardenoside [4] in high levels. The leaves of Ge. americana plants redifferentiated from the callus tissues produce 2.
PMID: 1667413 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2. Genipa Americana in Native Tropical Medicine
Keeler, C.
Dermatol Trop Ecol Geogr. 1964 Apr-Jun;28:104-7.
PMID: 14201322 [PubMed - OLDMEDLINE for Pre1966]

3. Antibacterial action of an extract from the jagua fruit, Genipa americana; preliminary note.
CORDOVA MARQUEZ R, AXTMAYER JH, BRENES POMALES A.
PMID: 13208774 [PubMed - OLDMEDLINE for Pre1966]
Bol Asoc Med P R. 1954 Aug;46(8):375-6.
Genipa americana L. Rubiaceae. “Huito”, “Huitol”, “Jagua”, “Genipap”. Fresh fruit eaten for bronchitis; also used to make spiritous drinks. Cooking with brown sugar and aguardiente makes a nice dessert. Green fruit used to dye clothes, also used to paint and decorate their faces. Wood used in carpentry. Some people affirm that the fruit decoction is abortifacient. Don Antonio Montero claims that the strained fruit juice is good for cancer of the uterus. “Achuales” from Pastaza use the green pericarp to extract decayed teeth. “Achuales” and peasants near Iquitos cook the fruit and seeds; this decoction is use on baths for female genital inflammations. It also reduces swelling of the respiratory mucous membranes. “Kayapo” eat the fruit and use it to decorate their bodies. “Crééoles” prepare a cathartic and antidiarrheic decoction; the same decoction is used in poultice to treat ulcers (GMJ). Haitians use for anemia, aphrodisia, blenorrhagia, diarrhea, gonorrhea, hepatoses, and tumors (DAW). Brazilians express the fruit juice, let stand overnight, and drink a small cup each day for 2 or 3 days for jaundice (BDC). Contains: genipin, mannitol, tannin, methyl-ethers, caterine, hydantoin, and tannic acid (RVM).

1. Duke, J.A. And Vazquez Martinez, R. 1994. Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary (Peru). CRC Press, Boca Raton FL. 215 pp. $42.95 (all royalties revert to the Amazonian Center for Environmental Education and Research, 10 Environs Park, Helena, AL 35080.)

2. Ayala Flore, F. 1984. Notes on Some Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Amazonian Peru. pp. 1-8 in Advances in Economic Botany 1: 1984. (Cited as AYA)

3. Balick, M.J. 1985. Useful Plants of Amazonia: A Resource of Global Importance. Chap. 19 in Prance, G.T. and Lovejoy, T.E., eds. Amazonia. Pergamon Press. 1985. (Cited as MJB)

4. Balick, M.J. and Gersgoff, S.N. 1990. A Nutritional Study of Aiphanes caryotifolia (Kunth) Wendl. (Palmae) Fruit: An Exceptional Source of Vitamin A and High Quality Protein from Tropical America. Advances in Econ. Bot. 8:35-40. (Cited as MJB)

5. Branch, L.C. and da Silva, I.M.F. 1983. Folk Medicine of Alter do Chao, Para, Brazil. Acta Amazonica 13(5/6):737-797. Manaus. (Cited as BDS)

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11. Duke, J.A. and duCellier, J.L. 1993. CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 536 pp. (Cited as DAD)

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21. Maxwell, N. 1990. Witch Doctor’s Apprentice, Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazonian, 3rd Edition, Citadel Press, New York. 391 pp. (Cited as NIC)

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23. Rutter, R.A. 1990. Catalogo de Plantas Utiles de la Amazonia Peruana. Instituto Linguistico de Verano. Yarinacocha, Peru. 349. (Cited as RAR)

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29. GENERAL REFERENCES: Reader’s Digest Magic and Medicine of Plants; Natural Health’s World Medicine; Lewis and Elvin-Lewis Medical Botany